Re: Is the monitor ON?

["Bernardo Dal Seno" <dibbex@gmail.com>]

2008/8/8 mike <mail4mike2008-debian@yahoo.com>:
> mike wrote:
> Then I decided to try them on one of the flat
> screen monitors.  On or off they reported the same.  Even if I took the
> power cable off of the monitor (it was really really off) it was still
> reporting the same info.

Probably there is some power left in the internal AC adapter; a
monitor consumes very little in the "fake off" state.

> I guess I will keep looking for a
> solution.

Have you tried "xset -q" (you should look in the DPMS section)?


Ciao,
Bernardo